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Originally posted by dmm:
Baron, that's a great idea! Hope it will get implemented eventually. It would be cool to establish a base at the limits of your colonizer ships, then have that base build escorts for exploration. Also, it would help with defense in the early game -- you could make lots of escorts quickly. An enemy without long-range sensors wouldn't know if the fleet on your outpost was 4 escorts or 4 destroyers, so he'd have to weigh the risks. (This can happen now, of course, but it would become much more common with your suggestion.)
One problem might be people making tons of escorts to suddenly inflate their score.
Well, you could say the same of starbases with nothing but ship control components. This is a problem with players abusing the way score is calculated, not a problem with starbases. I personally would like to see some changes so that the AI would work with 'perceived' strength rather than getting a 'cheat' view of your actual strength. Non-sabotage Intelligence projects would actually be important to the AI then.
I'd also like to see any sort of colony be able to build a colony ship but that might require some tricky manipulation of the restrictions since they are so large.